Blender Mantaflow liquid is so good, anyone else tried it?

[criticalphil]

Anyone tried the mantaflow branch? i have been messing around and created the following simulation:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1341616872

Fluid res: 128
Animation res: 1280, 720, with only 128 samples.

it has float(foam), bubbles and drop particles.

Scale of the scene:
Everything was created inside the default blender Cube which i believe is 2 blender units big.

i didnt use denoise as i dont think it works well with fluids unless you are rendering with a high sample rate.

Edit: added a new simulation that i just did.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1344074607

Rendered at 1920 * 1080px with 300 samples


Edit: forgot to add the official link for blender mantaflow branch https://github.com/sebbas/BlenderMantaflow/releases

Please note this is still in development and will eventually be in 2.8

[Sean]

Originally posted by criticalphil:

Originally posted by Sean:

No change. That’s a setting I’ve been looking for for other projects, but it just says the HDRi isn’t causing the liquid to look bad.
Any chance you could remove the HDRi/addon and send the project file? I want to just compare everything and see what’s done different (also so I can get it rendering on my other computer)

all i have done is remove the HDRi

https://ufile.io/rsnov

let me know how you get on.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1D7Y7n72o9SAX96nRujQFhHrHYzUaOQ8Z

:D
20 hours left. I’ll let you know when it’s done.

[criticalphil]

Originally posted by Sean:

Originally posted by criticalphil:

all i have done is remove the HDRi

https://ufile.io/rsnov

let me know how you get on.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1D7Y7n72o9SAX96nRujQFhHrHYzUaOQ8Z

:D
20 hours left. I’ll let you know when it’s done.

wow that looks crisp how many render samples are you using?

[Sean]

Originally posted by criticalphil:

Originally posted by Sean:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1D7Y7n72o9SAX96nRujQFhHrHYzUaOQ8Z

:D
20 hours left. I’ll let you know when it’s done.

wow that looks crisp how many render samples are you using?

512 :)
But the image being 4k helps too

[criticalphil]

Originally posted by Sean:

Originally posted by criticalphil:

wow that looks crisp how many render samples are you using?

512 :)
But the image being 4k helps too

just did another animation


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1344074607

Rendered at 1920 * 1080px with 300 samples

[Sean]

Originally posted by criticalphil:

Originally posted by Sean:

512 :)
But the image being 4k helps too

just did another animation


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1344074607

Rendered at 1920 * 1080px with 300 samples

It's done

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vw5r0zVhy0qt0Gw1kNabIFHRc7f9tG8z

[Sean]

Originally posted by Sean:

Originally posted by criticalphil:

just did another animation


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1344074607

Rendered at 1920 * 1080px with 300 samples

It's done

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vw5r0zVhy0qt0Gw1kNabIFHRc7f9tG8z

So it turns out my project must have been bad, bugged, or broken because of adding the pbr addon after creating the project. I created a clean project and with a water resolution of 32 (same for samples) and it looks perfect ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[criticalphil]

Originally posted by Sean:

Originally posted by Sean:

It's done

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vw5r0zVhy0qt0Gw1kNabIFHRc7f9tG8z

So it turns out my project must have been bad, bugged, or broken because of adding the pbr addon after creating the project. I created a clean project and with a water resolution of 32 (same for samples) and it looks perfect ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

dont the liquid look horrible at a resolution of 32 though?

[Sean]

Originally posted by criticalphil:

Originally posted by Sean:

So it turns out my project must have been bad, bugged, or broken because of adding the pbr addon after creating the project. I created a clean project and with a water resolution of 32 (same for samples) and it looks perfect ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

dont the liquid look horrible at a resolution of 32 though?

With smooth shading it looked pretty good. I'm throwing together a full scene for a full resolution test.

[criticalphil]

Originally posted by Sean:

Originally posted by criticalphil:

dont the liquid look horrible at a resolution of 32 though?

With smooth shading it looked pretty good. I'm throwing together a full scene for a full resolution test.

cool btw thanks for that render, wish my pc was better lol.

[Sean]

Originally posted by criticalphil:

Originally posted by Sean:

With smooth shading it looked pretty good. I'm throwing together a full scene for a full resolution test.

cool btw thanks for that render, wish my pc was better lol.

Right now, most Ryzen processors are on sale. You can get a 1700X (What I have in my rendering workstation) for $289 or a 1600X for $200 (My favorite being the 1800X [$330], which along with the 1700X has 8 cores and 16 threads).

I just thought I should let you know. If you're thinking about upgrading, now is a perfect time

[criticalphil]

Originally posted by Sean:

Originally posted by criticalphil:

cool btw thanks for that render, wish my pc was better lol.

Right now, most Ryzen processors are on sale. You can get a 1700X (What I have in my rendering workstation) for $289 or a 1600X for $200 (My favorite being the 1800X [$330], which along with the 1700X has 8 cores and 16 threads).

I just thought I should let you know. If you're thinking about upgrading, now is a perfect time

nice one thanks for the info will look in to it.

[Sean]

Originally posted by criticalphil:

Originally posted by Sean:

Right now, most Ryzen processors are on sale. You can get a 1700X (What I have in my rendering workstation) for $289 or a 1600X for $200 (My favorite being the 1800X [$330], which along with the 1700X has 8 cores and 16 threads).

I just thought I should let you know. If you're thinking about upgrading, now is a perfect time

nice one thanks for the info will look in to it.

I use Newegg. The prices are the same, but they don't charge sales tax and I've never had a problem using them. I build every computer of mine with parts ordered from them.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=ryzen&ignorear=0&N=-1&isNodeId=1

[TideTwo]

looks cool! Any chances you could help me set this up?
I dont have much experience with blender and dont know how to use mantaflow.